How is the DR, on the other side of the island, is relatively doing well with plenty of food and resorts (In fact they are the top tourist destination in the Caribbean) but Haiti has been a decrepit wasteland since the French left?
I don’t need to state the obvious.
The only country who abused their colonies worse was Belgium.
They never allowed anyone "home grown" to run anything so they never learned how anything worked.
Even today if you are in a french colony and you want to send a letter to the colony next door your letter is bundled up and shipped to Paris where it is sorted and sent on it's way.
The Spanish were no angels but they kept a much looser rein on their people and while the guys at the very top would be from the motherland the guys lower down the chain were home grown.